After graduating from Syracuse University this weekend, Brandon Triche will get his first real job interview next week. Sort of.

The NBA will hold its pre-draft camp, essentially the league’s version of a job fair, in Chicago next week. Triche, the 6-foot-4 guard who helped Syracuse to the NCAA’s Final Four this past season, is one of roughly 60 draft hopefuls invited to the camp.

The camp begins on Wednesday, May 15, and puts the players through four days of drills, measurements and interviews.

“I’ve actually been looking forward to this,’’ Triche said Tuesday after a workout at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center. “I’ve been looking forward to this opportunity.’’

Triche, who averaged 13.6 points last season for Syracuse, has been preparing for the Chicago camp with two or three workout sessions a day. His agent, Bill Duffy Associates, assigned him a trainer, who oversees Triche’s workouts.

“A basketball workout in the morning, then I lift weights and then I shoot in the afternoon,’’ Triche said. “Pretty much working on everything and, ultimately, just making sure I’m in the best shape possible.’’

Triche will go into Chicago and the NBA draft as a point guard; a position he hasn’t played on a full-time basis since he was a freshman at Syracuse. So his training sessions include speed dribbling, pull-up jumpers from the top of the key and pick-and-rolls.

“It’s my natural position,’’ Triche said.

Triche earned a reputation as a workout fiend at Syracuse. He had to be pushed out of the Melo Center on off days during the season. His size and strength could help him stand out in Chicago.

“I’m a workout guy,’’ Triche said. “You see me go through drills. It’s going to be to my benefit. I just want to make sure my body feels good. If my body feels good, then the rest is history.’’

Most draft analysts have Triche slotted late in the second round of the draft or as an undrafted free agent.

“I stopped looking at that stuff two or three years ago,’’ Triche said with a bemused grin. “I’ve just been working on myself, making sure I’m physically and mentally right and looking to surprise a lot of people.’’

The real test for Triche will come after the Chicago camp. He’ll spend a week or two in Santa Barbara to train with several other Bill Duffy clients. Then in late May or early June, Triche and the other players eligible for the NBA draft will travel to NBA cities for interviews with team officials and workouts with three to five other players. It will be in those 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 settings that Triche will have to convince an NBA team to spend a draft pick on him.

“I know what I’m going to have to do,’’ Triche said. “When you go to the individual team workouts and go 3-on-3 or 2-on-2, then it’s just you and that guy.’’

The job fair opens next week. The job interviews continue for the next month. On June 27, the night of the NBA draft, Triche will find out if he’s got a job offer.
Said Triche, “Hopefully, someone will take a liking to me.’’